Crowdshipping: Evaluating its Impacts on Travel Behavior
As communications technology innovations continue to rapidly transform retail supply chains, novel solutions are required to reduce transportation network impacts from ubiquitous last-mile shipments. In recent years, direct-to-home deliveries of household and consumer products have grown rapidly, requiring more vehicles carrying smaller shipment sizes to complete increasingly time-constrained movements to disparate destinations. Crowdshipping provides one potential approach to address resulting inefficiencies and redundancies in these local and last-mile deliveries.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $150000
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Contract Numbers:
49198-32-28
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Sponsor Organizations:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Managing Organizations:
University Transportation Research Center
City College of New York
Marshak Hall, Suite 910, 160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY United States 10031 -
Project Managers:
Eickemeyer, Penny
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Performing Organizations:
City College of New York
Civil Engineering, Steinman T-127
140th Street and Convent Avenue
New York, NY United States 10031 -
Principal Investigators:
Allahviranloo, Mahdieh
Conway, Alison
- Start Date: 20160801
- Expected Completion Date: 20180630
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Crowds; Delivery service; Shipments; Supply chain management; Technological innovations; Urban goods movement
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01612973
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: University Transportation Research Center
- Contract Numbers: 49198-32-28
- Files: UTC, RiP
- Created Date: Oct 4 2016 3:53PM